to expect my DD's school to take them on their school trip safely?

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I'm not sure what to do - they're going on a school trip soon presumably in a coach but not a thing has been mentioned about car seats?

What usually happens on these things? I've had to pay £8 for the priviledge of them taking DD on this trip and they've not mentioned anything about how they will be securing them safely in the coach.

This is reception btw so DD 5.5y

most admit dc are not allowed travel in car without carseats always wonder how come differnt law for coaches

coaches are statistically much much safer than cars, as are public buses hence no seat belt there at all!

must admit I have had the panic moments when the DC went on first trips though, and would NOT allow DD to go on a trip involving the motorway in another parents car, but thats another story

OP - you have years ahead of you of paying for school trips and of waving your child off in a coach. You can trust your child to her teachers - they don't actually want anything to happen to them either. Just try to put it out of your mind - othwise you'll never survive when she's in Year 6 and going caving....or sking aged 15....or on a gap year aged 18

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The coach will have seatbelts, and I think the dynamics of a large vehicle either make carseats pointless or more dangerous - a very vague memory of something I read once.

DS's last trip cost 18quid but as usually they do public transport they don't actually cost anything, so only one paid trip a year is quite reasonable IMO.

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MissSunny - yes ours do several things relying on parental volunteer cars. You have to sign a form to say you have a valid driving license and insurance but THAT IS ALL . Until this term you did not even need a CRB check!!! They do it for choir trips, athletics events etc when hiring a coach for so few children to go would be horrendously expensive. You can just take your own DC and not take anyone elses (assuming you don't work/can get time off). I sometimes take DDs friends or let her go with other parents if we know them well, and I alwasy insist on car seats.

I got a bit of a slating on here once for saying AIBU not to allow DD to go to a (really special one off) event if it involved a 2 hr motorway round trip in someone elses car, in the dark in winter. Not a parent I knew ANYTHING about, whther they drove safely, drink and drive, have road worthy vehicle. DH got the time off work in the end, so she got her day to remember.

MissSunny you just have to ring your insurers and check you are covered, then sign to say you have done so. school do not ask for any proof though. it just comes under personal social and pleasure use, as you are not being given money for doing it/petrol expenses etc

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MissSunny - well I have NO idea how good a driver most of my DC's friends parents are. I don't drive, if they offer to drive them back from a "play date" (I hate that term ) I accept...........